Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer: Oregon lets an Oregon LLC convert directly into another state’s LLC and remain the same legal entity: no dissolve-and-reform. The governing section is ORS 63.470(2), and it carries a real condition: the destination state’s own law has to permit the conversion, and the LLC has to comply with whatever that state requires too. The Secretary of State’s published fee schedule lists $275 for an outbound conversion, though that specific figure carries a currency caveat.
The statute, and why Oregon gets miscounted
ORS 63.470(2) reads: ‘A limited liability company organized under this chapter may be converted to a business entity organized under the laws of another jurisdiction if: (a) The laws of the other jurisdiction permit the conversion; (b) The converting limited liability company approves a plan of conversion; (c) Articles of conversion are filed in this state; (d) [the converted entity registers as a foreign business entity in Oregon unless it will not continue transacting business here]; and (e) The limited liability company complies with any requirements that the laws of the other jurisdiction impose.’ Independently reconfirmed this session via direct fetch of the official oregonlegislature.gov chapter page: text matches the dataset verbatim.
What the filing costs
Articles of Conversion filed with the Oregon Secretary of State, Corporation Division. The fee depends on the entity resulting from the conversion: $100 if the final entity is an Oregon domestic LLC (inbound), $275 if the final entity is the foreign LLC (outbound: the relevant fee for leaving Oregon). If the converted entity keeps doing business in Oregon, a separate $275 Foreign Application for Authority is also required. Currency flag: the SOS fee-schedule PDF’s own footer reads ‘(07/13)’, which read literally would make it 13 years stale: this fee figure was not independently re-fetched this session and should be treated as dataset-only.
That is the entity-law filing fee only. It is not the cost of leaving, and anyone who tells you the cost of leaving Oregon is a filing fee is selling something.
The part this page does not answer
The reason people search for this is usually not the filing. It is the tax exposure: what Oregon’s own revenue agency does when you leave, whether a final return is due, and whether the state agrees the entity has actually stopped doing business there. Those questions are governed by Oregon tax law and administrative practice, not by the entity-law citation above, and this cluster does not source them. We have the entity-law answer at primary and the tax answer not at all.
Two things worth knowing even so, both the general shape rather than a state-specific finding: changing the entity’s state of organization does not by itself end an obligation to register as a foreign LLC anywhere you still do business, and a state’s revenue department is a separate counterparty from its filing office. If you are moving to cut a tax bill, the entity move is the easy half.
This page sells nothing and links to no filing service. Moving an LLC is a filing-desk task with a statutory answer, and the answer is either in your two states’ codes or it is not.
What is commonly published about Oregon, and why it is wrong
Published tables that list Oregon as unconditionally ‘domestication permitted,’ or that cite a nonexistent Oregon ‘domestication’ statute, without noting the reciprocity condition in ORS 63.470(2)(a).
Check both ends of the move, not just the destination
A move needs two things to be true: your destination has to let the entity in, and your current state has to let it out. Nine states have no statutory route out, so an LLC formed in one of them cannot domesticate anywhere, however welcoming the destination is. That is where most published advice goes wrong; it checks one end.
| State you would be leaving | Why there is no route out | What the code offers instead |
|---|---|---|
| Delaware | the statute affirmatively limits it | 6 Del. C. § 18-209 |
| Kentucky | nothing in the code permits it | KRS 275.345 to 275.365 |
| Massachusetts | the statute affirmatively limits it | Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 156C, § 59(b) |
| Missouri | nothing in the code permits it | Mo. Rev. Stat. §§ 347.127 to 347.135 |
| New Mexico | nothing in the code permits it | NMSA 1978 § 53-19-62 |
| New York | nothing in the code permits it | NY LLC Law § 1001(b), certificate of merger under § 1003 |
| South Carolina | the statute affirmatively limits it | S.C. Code Ann. § 33-44-904 |
| Washington | the statute affirmatively limits it | RCW 25.15.416 to 25.15.431 |
| West Virginia | nothing in the code permits it | W. Va. Code § 31B-9-904, articles of merger under § 31B-9-905 |
Delaware is the surprise on that list and it is not a mistake; see the Delaware page. For the other eight, the substitute is a merger, not a dissolution: form the new entity in the destination state and merge the old one into it. Merger produces a surviving entity rather than a continuation, so it is genuinely not the same thing as domestication, but it keeps far more alive than dissolving does.
The full 51-jurisdiction table is on the domestication states list; the three routes are compared on how to move an LLC to another state.
Sources
Every row on this page is statutory text. No formation service, no registered-agent marketing page and no aggregator is cited anywhere in this cluster; those are the only publishers of the competing versions.
- Oregon: https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/ors/ors063.html. Statutory text, Dataset retrieved 2026-08-12 by fetching the official Oregon Legislature ORS Chapter 63 page directly..